Insect body parts have names a lot like ours — the head, thorax (chest), and abdomen. But insects are also very different from us in many ways, including: They have a hard outer skeleton, instead of ...

Those singular shapes, insect anatomists explain, stem from the treehopper’s specially modified pronotum—a section of the thorax that in other insects resembles a small, shield-like plate.

An insect is a small creature with three body parts (head, thorax and abdomen) and three pairs of legs. Many have wings. Most of them undergo complete changes of shape during their lifecycles.

Insects have a segmented body with 3 regions: head, thorax, and abdomen. They have 6 legs and antennae. Ticks are parasites of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, like us, dogs, deer, and birds.

Hundreds of male insects have been marked on the thorax with a different colour for five of the inhabited islands. The study, nicknamed Game of Drones, will look at whether male drone bees cross ...